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Why the World Went to War: The Road to 1914 Trailer Part 3 · The Twin History Podcast

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  Johnny, anything to say? Yeah, I just hope you guys are
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  still with us. This is when we see the naval
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  race really heat up and where the British start to become
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  worried about German homogeny and the oceans around the world.
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  They're certainly not with us and I don't think they've ever
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  been with. Us.
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  Yeah, maybe not without primary sources.
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  They were being waspray. This is going to be a four part
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  monster. Series She basically equated
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  dress theory to mutually assured destruction.
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  I told my wife that even though well before parts like there's
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  still going to be stuff that you missed so.
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  Is that why she's divorcing you it?
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  Might be I am assuring my own destruction because they have so
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  many weapons I. Wonder why she married you then?
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  And we have to remember, like the idea of imperialism and
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  colonies and empire, it goes back to the 1500's, the 16th
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  century. Portugal and Spain basically
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  provided the blueprint. And after that, other European
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  nations. And about the Dutch, the French,
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  the British, of course. Yeah, I do wonder why, when
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  Germany becomes a united nation in 1871, they want to be part of
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  that. But we need to take into account
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  that most colonies are established by that point, so
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  you can understand why the British in particular and the
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  French were threatened by German colonial expansion I.
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  Mean it was a First World War theme weapon.
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  Besmark famously said my map of Africa is in.
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  Europe, thankfully, I don't sure.
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  I'll always remember when Franz Joseph said about dealing with
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  Serbia and dealing with the Slappy question.
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  If the empire is to perish, it shall do so with dignity, and
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  I'm sure that 18 to 20 million people who died in the war would
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  have shared that sentiment.